Quotes about imagination

"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive."

Thoreau, Henry David on imagination
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"We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions."

Troward, Thomas on imagination   

"You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus."

Twain, Mark on imagination
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"Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason."

Unknown, Source on imagination   

"If you clearly and vividly IMAGINE yourself in the first person doing, being, having the things and qualities you truly want... then you will be using positive imagination to begin a change to fulfilling that image."

Unknown, Source on imagination   

"You must pre-live the future... not re-live the past... and savor the moment."

Unknown, Source on imagination   

"Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be."

Unknown, Source on imagination   

"It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around."

Unknown, Source on imagination   

"Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination."

Unknown, Source on imagination   

"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real."

Verne, Jules on imagination   

"Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination."

Vizinczey, Stephen on imagination   

"I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas."

Voltaire on imagination
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"We are what we imagine ourselves to be."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on imagination   

"Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!"

Waitley, Denis on imagination   

"You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization."

Waitley, Denis on imagination
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"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it."

Ward, William A. on imagination   

"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."

Weil, Simone on imagination   

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life."

Weil, Simone on imagination
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"Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

Wilde, Oscar on imagination
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"What you see is what you get."

Wilson, Flip on imagination   

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on imagination
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"First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on imagination   

"The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind."

Zilbergeld, Bernie on imagination   

"There exists somewhere, around us, without or within us, in the depths of the unseen world, spheres where are formed the eternal images reflected in our intellects, and which the artist or poet filch from Mystery by the magic ...power of their imagination, that mysterious divine faculty which must be known in order to be in tune with the harmony of the World."

delville, jean on imagination